Nigerian gospel star,Sammy Okposo
had a reputation as a ladies man, all that changed when he got married. In a
new interview t with Yes Magazine, he opened up on dating famous women.
You moved effortlessly from one
woman to another then. In fact, you were gliding and galloping (General
laughter) Kate Henshaw, Stella Damasus, Janet Fateye, Gloria Ibru and so on.
How were you able to cope during those days? continue..
It was mad! Its a crazy thing that I did then. The industry just swallowed me.
Thats the only way I can describe it because I was an up and coming
entertainment personality, I was involved in all the media events, all the
awards. They were calling me to be part of the theme songs, to do this, do that
and I said to myself, my God, this is the life! The kind of ladies that you
will not dare say good morning to; you dont even have to say good morning; as
you are passing, they will just say hi and you begin to wonder: are my the one
they are waving at? Because I was in the limelight and I didnt know how to
handle it; I entered it gbuaaaa! And I was like my God; is this what these
celebrities are dealing with? Where you dont even have to say hello to a lady.
Shes looking for you, shes trying to hang out with you. So, I didnt know what
to dwith it; I thought that was the life and the thing just swallowed me and
like you said, before you knew it, I was gliding and galloping from
relationship to relationship. It was crazy! I didnt know better. I didnt know
better, but I will balance that. I didnt know better, but somehow, I am
grateful that I had to go through that. Because that is what I appreciate now;
because of what I have been through. Youknow they say experience is the best
teacher. When you have gone through some things, that is when you look back and
you say ah! That was not a good experience. You will do all you can not to go
through that again.
Of all the beautiful girls you dated, why did you settle for your wife,
Ozioma?Emwithout trying to discredit anybody, because any past relationship I
have had, I respect, and a lot of them havemoved into their own families, so I
try my best to respect who they are now regardless of whatever we had in the
past and that doesnt make any of them unqualified or not a house wife material.
No! It was a decision I made. All the relationships I had in my industry did
not get me to that point where I could decide to say I do. Yeah, it went
towards that direction, but it didnt get there. So, I said to myself: dude,
maybe you need to look away from this industry, maybe your life partner is not
there, because sometimes people say if the person is in the entertainment industry,
the person already understands how crazy your schedule is, knows that you would
travel, you can be on tour for 6 months and because the person is in the
industry, the person will understand.
Thats what some people say. So, I thought that would work, but it didnt work
like that and it was not just a one-time thing. So, I decided; I said, take
your mind away from the entertainment industry and look outside; maybe the wife
you want to look for now would be out there and not in the industry. So, I deliberately
took my mind away from the entertainment industry and I told myself that well,
they are fantastic people, but I think one relationship, two relationships,
three, four, five is enough to convince you that you know what, try it from
another side. I decided to look out and it was in my looking out, away from the
industry, that I met my wife in Gods kingdom. I went to perform at KICC
(Kingsway International Christian Centre in London). Pastor Matthew Ashimolowos
church. That was how and where I met my wife. She came with her sister. After
my performance, I was signing my CDs for people. I was so busy, I wasnt even
looking up. People were on queue; they buy and I sign. But immediately I saw
her hand, I looked up, saw a very beautiful woman, but couldnt do anything
because there were so many people on the queue. Later, when I left for my
hotel, I still couldnt get her off my mind. My heart was troubled. Then, a
friend called to say he wanted to take me out because I complained of boredom.
Along the way, he said we should stop over first at one exhibition going on,
and reluctantly I accepted. Azuh, listen to this when we got to the exhibition,
it turned out that it was my wifes sister that was organizing it and guess
what? She was also there! And that was how we started. She refused to give me
her number. She only gave me her email address and I started bombarding her
with mails, sometimes 10 in a day. Haba! Na me now! Let me tell you another
interesting story during that time, I was getting shows almost every week in
London. So, we were always seeing. My manager will call me and say theres this
show, but what they are offering is not much and I will say take it! Shebi they
will take care of accommodation, flight and so on? Just to see my wife o! So, I
was always going to London, seeing her till we got married. But you people, the
press, didnt know until we finally got married. My marriage was a big surprise
to all of you, which I like. At least, una don leave me alone (General
laughter).
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